We have reached the point where poverty needs to be treated less like an inconvenience and more like the devastating reality that it is. The issue is easy enough to ignore when you’re not affected by it, but in doing so we condone the suffering of millions of people. It is the responsibility of the government at least, if not all citizens, to stand by these people and provide them the assistance they so desperately need. We can’t abandon them and expect them to survive in the conditions they’re living them. We can’t stand by and let them suffer.
Without assistance the lives of the impoverished can be completely ruined by their conditions. Celina, for example, lived with her husband and her three kids in a one room home in the Philippines. Their situation was not ideal but manageable until her husband was hospitalized with a ruptured appendix. To pay for the hospital bill, Celina was forced to go to a loan shark. Because of the debt she undertook she realized her only option was to emigrate to America and find employment. To emigrate she would have to leave her family …show more content…
This happens through the public policies that determine the incidence of poverty and how it is responded to by governing authorities (Brady 2009)...The profound differences between Nordic and Anglo-Saxon nations are described by two Canadian sociologists (Saint-Arnaud and Bernard 2003). Among the Nordic nations, the overriding ideological imperative is one of promoting equality through state action. It does so by promoting full employment and reducing inequalities in income. In contrast, the dominant Anglo-Saxon ideological inspiration of liberty manifests by giving the market economy a freer rein. State intervention in the operation of the economy is minimised. Not surprisingly, these liberal political economies have the greatest incidence of poverty and the least emphasis reduce it.
Without assistance the lives of the impoverished can be completely ruined by their conditions. Celina, for example, lived with her husband and her three kids in a one room home in the Philippines. Their situation was not ideal but manageable until her husband was hospitalized with a ruptured appendix. To pay for the hospital bill, Celina was forced to go to a loan shark. Because of the debt she undertook she realized her only option was to emigrate to America and find employment. To emigrate she would have to leave her family …show more content…
This happens through the public policies that determine the incidence of poverty and how it is responded to by governing authorities (Brady 2009)...The profound differences between Nordic and Anglo-Saxon nations are described by two Canadian sociologists (Saint-Arnaud and Bernard 2003). Among the Nordic nations, the overriding ideological imperative is one of promoting equality through state action. It does so by promoting full employment and reducing inequalities in income. In contrast, the dominant Anglo-Saxon ideological inspiration of liberty manifests by giving the market economy a freer rein. State intervention in the operation of the economy is minimised. Not surprisingly, these liberal political economies have the greatest incidence of poverty and the least emphasis reduce it.